"Eagles!"
Wicomico River at Wicomico Shores Landing
Leader: Steve Palincsar
Members: Janell Saunders, Ron Altemus, Janet Shipko, Dave VanAmayden
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45896776
Weather: Sunny and clear with a brisk 15 mph wind with gusts up to 20 mph. 40 at the start (which felt like the mid-30s) rising to 50 (which barely felt like 40, except for when we were sitting out of the wind at Chaptico).
AMS: 12.3
Mechanicals/Mishaps: none
Report: Let's hope today was Winter's curtain call. The sun was plenty warm, but oh that wind.
We rode down Woodburn Hill Rd hoping to see eagles (you often do in the Spring, thanks to Amish Meat on Westham Ln) and our hopes were fulfilled. We were all alone on Woodburn Hill Rd, except for a number of curious horses and sheep, and of course the eagles. After a while they flew overhead to check us out.
We fought a headwind backtracking on Woodburn Hill, and continued fighting it on Dixie Lyon. There were only a few cars on Thompson Corner, but traffic picked up quite a bit on Budd's Creek. It was quit pretty at Wicomico Shores Landing, but there was no sheltering from the wind that brought us the engine sounds from Potomac Speedway.
With the wind at our back we fairly flew down to Chaptico. It was only six miles from our previous stop, but we rested there out of the wind, basking in the sun, talking about ice cream and cold days until it was time to leave. Baptist Church was almost empty, as was the Three Notch Trail. We were happy to arrive back at Northern Senior Center feeling as though we'd ridden far more than 33.5 miles, and climbed more than the 931 feet recorded by my Garmin.
This is a very pretty route, and on a mild day would have been a fine introduction to Spring.
